Two beef patties, bacon, cheddar cheese, onion rings, slices of ham, red onion, lettuce, and tomato. With a side of fries. And a bag of Skittles.

Fans will swallow anything if a player produces, and Seahawks fans will be lining up before and during the game Saturday to order the "Beast Burger" in honor of running back Marshawn Lynch.

The Oakland native, who can be quite engaging, has talked less and less since leaving Cal for Buffalo and then Seattle. And this season, Lynch stopped talking to reporters altogether. The NFL, which needs all parts of the humongous machine to be humming, fined the running back $50,000 this week for declining interview requests all season.

Seahawks fans, naturally, went "Beast Mode" - Lynch's favorite term - and started an online campaign to raise the money for him. After all, Lynch is making only $7 million this season. More important, Lynch is a big reason the Seahawks are Super Bowl favorites, so what's a few 20s in the collection box if it makes the running back happy?

Lynch was touched by the gesture. Wednesday he said on his Facebook page that he had won his appeal with the league and would match the fans' donation and send the money to a local charity.

Lynch will run over defenders before he jukes them, and the league did grab his jersey on that last move. The NFL said that Lynch, in fact, had not won the appeal but that the league would hold the $50,000 in abeyance for now after Lynch committed to complying with the league's media policy,

If he talked during the playoff run, they wouldn't collect. If he continued to stiff-arm interviewers, the amount would double.

So he's talking now. Reporters are wondering what they used to do before his three- and four-word answers to questions.

Lynch was asked Thursday about his famous, ground-shaking 67-yard touchdown run when the Seahawks faced the Saints in the 2010 season's playoffs. "It was loud," Lynch said.

Anything else?

"It was really loud," he said.

The Seattle crowd went nuts that day - the Pacific Northwest Seismic Network recorded a small tremor near what was then known as Qwest Field - and the Lynch jerseys are still flying off the shelves.

While the Seahawks have whirling dervish Russell Wilson at quarterback and a nasty defense, Lynch will carry them on his back at times. He is the best running back still playing; the five who ran for more than his 1,257 yards this season will be watching Lynch from their couches.

Lynch had only 45 yards on 16 carries against New Orleans last month, but that's because Seattle won that game 34-7.

Lynch hasn't posted a 100-yard game since Nov. 10 at Atlanta, but the defense won't be able to stack the box against him with the return of speedy receiver Percy Harvin from a hip injury.

The Seahawks defense plays with the same chip on its shoulder that Lynch does. Seattle had 28 interceptions and an opponent passer rating of 63.4, one of just 15 teams since 2000 to hold opposing passers to 65.0 or less.

"Our team is made to play with a chip on our shoulder, regardless of the notoriety we're getting," said cornerback and Stanford alum Richard Sherman, who led the NFL with eight interceptions. "You can't change the chip, you can't take it off. Once it gets on, it stays on, and a lot of our guys are like that. Our guys will always play with that edge, that fire and that hunger. It's something that is embedded in all of us."

OK, who's up for a Beast Burger? Niners fans next week?

Vic's picks

Saints at Seahawks (-8): If you're going to take anything from Seattle's blowout win over New Orleans earlier in season, take this: The Saints didn't get a lot of pressure on Russell Wilson. All the other stuff, like the revenge angle, you can throw in the Pacific Ocean. Drew Brees proved he could win on the road last week. This is a different animal. SEAHAWKS

Colts at Patriots (-7.5): Indianapolis is coming off a very impressive and historic comeback win over the Chiefs last week. Can we at least, though, put a small asterisk on it since Kansas City lost so many players during the game, including its top two running backs? Alex Smith threw for 378 yards and four touchdowns. What do you think Tom Brady is going to do against Indy's secondary? PATRIOTS

49ers at Panthers (Pick 'em): Is it wrong if I base my entire pick on Carolina feeling slighted because hometown wrestling legend Ric Flair crept off in the middle of the night and gave San Francisco a pep talk last week? Yeah? How about if I think San Francisco barely beat a beat-up Green Bay team that didn't play that well? Or if I think the early start will be a factor and Carolina wins the battle in the trenches? PANTHERS

Chargers at Broncos (-9.5): Wow, that's a big number. Especially considering San Diego has been on a roll and its defense has improved remarkably down the stretch. On offense, the Chargers are a running team now and they pushed around the Broncos in a surprising Week 15 win in Denver. Can they do it again? No. Wes Welker is back, and Peyton Manning has too many weapons. BRONCOS